Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Understandably, Firestone may wish to limit the scope of the recall in order not to risk tarnishing its entire brand or setting off a panic. But when the public is questioning the brand across the board, "perception," notes Susan Bixler, president of the Professional Image consulting firm in Atlanta, "is more powerful than reality...
...Senate race. McCollum, 56, whose role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment trial sharpened his image as a partisan pit bull, is barnstorming Jacksonville homeless shelters and African-American churches in his Orlando district insisting that the more moderate conservative "is who I really am." Panic hasn't set in yet; but Nelson bets that "this is where the Republican jihad is going to be waged. The stakes are too high...
...Bush camp was trying not to panic, though top fund raisers were tapped to call up big donors and hold their hands. "Everyone thought we were so good that we were gonna walk away with this thing," sighs a top adviser to the Texas Governor. "Even we started believing it." Last week there was no shortage of Republican operatives who said they had seen trouble coming for weeks, even months, but none of the cocky co-pilots in Austin would listen. Some image advisers inside the campaign and back in Washington at Republican headquarters had said for weeks the Bush...
...First Amendment rights protect language, even language some may find offensive. But is this just offensive language? Or is it essentially a call to arms - and therefore not protected under the First Amendment? Comparisons have been made with someone who shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theater, thus causing a panic - speech that is not protected...
...This report could send some members of congressional appropriations committees running back for their notes - to date, schools have received almost $4 billion in federal aid earmarked for computers and Internet access. No one should panic just yet, though: Conflicting studies evaluating the benefits of computers are published often. And until we reach something resembling a consensus, we'll still be a very long way from turning our G-3s into fishbowls...